New ideas...

For my casing project I have once again revamped my entire project!

I am staying away with my earlier theme because I feel that it might just be too abstract of a reference, and it doesn't really match with my previous ideas.  So I'm going back to hearts, but I am adding Ricky and Lucy reaching down to try and take a lipstick.  The shelving is going to be the same as before.

I might turn the heart on it's side and I'm still contemplating on the materials to construct the characters with, my top choices are clay or chipboard but I'm leaning more towards the chipboard.

Display Project

For this week, I decided to completely scrap all of my old ideas and try some new ones.  My favorite idea that I came up with was to make the display case a take on the Tropicana, the nightclub that Ricky, Lucy's husband was a band leader, and a frequent setting for the show.  All of the other ideas that I came up with that were associated with I Love Lucy I felt were too campy or kitschy to be selling make up, I just hope this reference isn't too obscure.

What I want to do is make a stand alone unit with three shelves on it that extend across the top where the lipstick can be held, and then I just added the two palm trees on the side and the writing to keep with the Cuban nightclub theme that the Tropicana has.  My biggest concern is that the theme I chose might not be strong enough, or it might not be obvious enough or be close enough to my packaging.

This is how I plan on placing the lipsticks in the shelves, so the whole tube sits out of sight except the big heart at the top.  This way, when they are all put in the display it will just look like a strip of hearts.

I also don't know if I want to add different colors to this, or make it all one color (probably black or white)

Updates

For my display project, I am definitely having a hard time trying to find inspiration while sticking with my theme.  I tried to use the same prints and motifs as before and came up with this box that would display three lipsticks (where the purple squares are) and the box would be deep enough that only the heart on the packaged lipstick would stick through.

However, I think that this piece remains flat and uninspired so I am likely to completely change it for my next model.

Back to the drawing board!

Project 2

For my second project I had a lot of problems with creating an package that I felt would stand out as lipstick packaging because I knew that it would have to be on the smaller side.  I also knew that I wanted it to be something to stick with my theme of "I Love Lipstick" and just that fact that I think that makeup packaging is something that you can be really out there and fun with.

Some problems I had when making this was being able to get the chipboard strong enough to lift the lipstick up when you pull up the heart (and also making the heart sturdy enough that it didn't pull apart when pulling it).  I solved this with using glueing layers of  chipboards together to make it sturdier.  My biggest problem, however, was cutting the heart, as I learned that curves are quite hard to do with chipboard.